Turkish Political Commentator Hüseyin Güneş Incites against Turkey’s Jews: We Are All Slaves to Them; We Strive to Get Rid of IsraelTurkish political commentator Hüseyin Güneş said that "we are all slaves to the Jews," who "control us economically." In a May 17 interview on the Turkish Channel 9/Qanat TV, he said that the Turkish Jews had betrayed their country in WWI, and that they "have been traitors throughout history." Güneş said that “we are striving to get rid of Israel,” and complained that U.S. takes Gulf money to support Israel.

Former Grand Mufti of Lebanon Mohammed Rashid Qabbani Issues Fatwa: It Is an Islamic Duty to Wage Jihad to Liberate Palestine from the "Foreign Jewish Occupiers," All Peace Agreements with Them Null and Void Former Grand Mufti of Lebanon Mohammed Rashid Qabbani issued a fatwa according to which Palestinians and all Arabs and Muslims have a duty to wage Jihad "to liberate Palestine from the occupation of the Jews of the Balfour Declaration." Sheikh Qabbani compared the liberation of Palestine today to the Jihad waged by the Prophet Muhammad, by Omar ibn Al-Khattab, and by Saladin, and declared that Islam forbids the Palestinians and all Arab and Muslim countries "to surrender, to reconcile, to make peace treaties, or to concede a single inch of Arab Palestinian land to the foreign Jewish occupiers." Sheikh Qabbani's address aired on Al-Mayadeen TV on May 16.

(March 7, 2018 / JNS) A handwritten letter by legendary physicist Albert Einstein about one of his groundbreaking theories sold in Jerusalem on Tuesday for more than $100,000 as part of an auction of valuable documents.

The 1928 letter, penned by Einstein to a mathematician in Berlin about the formalization of the “Third State of the Theory of Relativity,” was purchased by an anonymous buyer for $103,700.

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The document included a second note written by Einstein on the back of the envelope, refining his thinking.

Though a hefty sum, a letter Einstein wrote on the secret of happiness was purchased in Jerusalem for $1.56 million in October, after being valued at $8,000. In June 2007, a letter by Einstein about God and religion was sold for nearly $210,000.

The German-born Einstein was a celebrated figure in Israel and even offered the presidency by Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion in 1952, though turned the offer down. He served as a nonresident governor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem until his death on April 18, 1955.